![]() ![]() To anyone not familiar with these hieroglyphs then the language becomes impenetrable. Some languages (and I'm thinking of Perl) use an array of strange symbols, which seem to have been almost arbitrarily selected, as part of their syntax. Often you'll find that the more a language emulates a written language then the harder it is to coax it into performing logically complex operations. Often programming languages that try and emulate the grammar of the English language end up being horribly long-winded, requiring huge expanses of code to perform the simplest actions. These include being more readable, in the same way that a short sentence can be more understandable than a flowery, verbose sentence. My answer would be that there are two basic reasons: I think you need to turn the question on it's head and ask: Why do some people think terse code is good? ![]()
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